The only thing Kylian Mbappe lacks now is really the Champions League title. And as he is not able to achieve this title at PSG, he needs to go to a team that he can really make it. A team that are very experienced in this tournament. And that team are Real Madrid of course. Real Madrid have been one of the greatest teams of the Champions League history so far. And after Mbappe joins Real Madrid, I believe that he will have this title at least once. And maybe this can happen even in next season which would be a great beginning for Mbappe too.

In the first two free practices, two drivers at the top were the same. Leclerc led both of them and Verstappen was right behind him by a small gap. It looks like it is going to be a lot of fun to watch these two youngsters competing with each other in the whole season.    And I have heard that Leclerc found himself in the wall too thus I hope he won't have any problem on joining the qualifying session. This track is really tricky and hard. You can hit the wall so easily even if you lose your focus for a moment.

Portekiz'e biraz şanssız bir şekilde elendiğimize inanıyorum. Çünkü skor 2-1'e geldikten sonra çok önemli bir penaltı kazandık ama yararlanamadık. Bu da bizim sonumuzu getirdi. Eğer turu geçseydik karşımıza sürpriz bir şekilde Kuzey Makedonya gelecekti. İtalya'nın o kadar dominant oynayıp elenmesi cidden büyük sürprizdi.

I'm curious about another thing too. And that is whether Arsenal will be able to even take the third position from Chelsea. But it is going to be really hard that's for sure. Because they both have the same amount of absent matches now. And Chelsea are keeping their place by a 5-point difference. As Chelsea have been on a solid run lately, it is going to be very difficult for Arsenal to even get very near them. However, they are going to play a match against each other in late April in Stamford Bridge. It is going to be really critical for both of them if they still have a similar point difference between them.

Sevilla are in a really bad condition now actually. They got four draws in their last five matches. And they are likely to end the season even at the fourth or fifth position if they go on like this. Barcelona are already very close to get past them and it will surely happen. And Atletico Madrid have been playing really well for some weeks too. They have the same points with Barcelona. It wouldn't be a big deal for them to get past Sevilla too. But maybe Betis wouldn't be able to do so as the point difference is 7 now.

Of course, you have got a good point there. Eventually, Barcelona will have to go on without Messi as he is going to retire. They have started doing very well without him now already. And they can go on like this very well. And I agree on the thing you said about him too. If he goes back to Barcelona, the team will have to focus on Messi again. And this would cause Xavi's plans not to work anymore. But maybe they would like to have him to retire there as he played for them for so many years in the end. Messi would be okay to that surely.

Barcelona players are getting more and more confident every week. Especially the incredible win in the El Clasico must be very helpful for them to focus on their coming matches completely to win each one of them. I just love the way how they started to perform this great and have maintained it for a long time. I think that they will keep this performance until the end of the season and finish the season at the second spot also. And they will give a big signal for next season of the league by doing this.

Milan are really serious about winning the championship in the Serie A this season. And they can really close in on the championship more after the matches next week indeed. Napoli and Inter are very likely to lose points to me. But I wonder how they both are going to perform. I think that Atalanta and Napoli both will score and it will end up with a 1-1 draw. And in the Juventus - Inter match, I'm having a similar expectation right now. Juventus are no different than Inter recently. They wouldn't give up on this match easily.

It looks like the weakest team in the semi-finals are Crystal Palace right now. And they have a really difficult opponent to play against like Chelsea. I think that Chelsea are going to care about the FA Cup a lot to have at least one title at the end of the season. And Crystal Palace are not a big hindrance to get past for Chelsea. There is a huge quality difference between them. Maybe Crystal Palace are going to play differently compared to the Premier League. But I still don't think that they will be a huge threat.

Denver Nuggets got an unfortunate loss against Boston Celtics in their home game. Celtics were the side being favoured though but I still didn't expect Nuggets to give up early. But they really did. Nuggets' performance in the second quarter was very poor and the quarter score was 16-35 for them. This could be the main reason for this loss by 104-124. Jokic had an impressive effort as always but there is still no other player to accompany him to reach victories. And for Celtics, J. Brown and J. Tatum were really great by scoring 30 points both.

If Lionel Messi returns to Barcelona for real, it would be really interesting. Because his old teammate Xavi is managing the team now and it would be interesting to play under his management for Messi. And Xavi is building a solid team again after having a problematic period. Messi is of course always welcomed by Barcelona. However, I'm not sure whether Barcelona have enough money to re-sign him. As we all know, they are not financially stable now. If Messi doesn't go back there, I'd love to watch him at Manchester City. 

Dortmund lost very important two points against Koln unfortunately. I was really hoping them to win this match and stay four points behind Bayern Munich in the standings as well. But there was a 1-1 draw at the end. And Erling Haaland hasn't scored for three weeks too. He needs to be productive like in the times before he got injured. Dortmund are having better results when he plays very well too. This was already a tough match of course but Dortmund were still a much better team. And in this critical title fight, they should have won.

It was a huge surprise for me to see Barcelona crushing Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabeu completely. This 4-0 loss is totally embarrassing for Real Madrid. They weren't in a bad condition before this match either but here we are. Barcelona really started to be themselves from now on and they are going to be the biggest threat to Real Madrid as of next season too. Real Madrid should be considering themselves lucky as Barcelona are twelve points behind and have not a chance to win the league title logically.

Things have been going awesome for Milan recently. They defeated Cagliari yesterday 1-0 and they had a nice effort in it too. Maybe Napoli won against Udinese but Inter's losing points against Fiorentina is definitely beneficial for Milan and Napoli both. Because Inter still have a missing match to play in the future. And it is the best for Milan and Napoli both to have as much gap as possible with Inter. Something is odd about Inter nowadays and I'm curious about if they will fix those problems.

Bayern Munich demolished their opponent Union Berlin by a 4-0 result. And now, we are waiting for Dortmund to have their match against Koln. It is very important for Dortmund to win now to keep the four-point gap with Bayern Munich. I still believe in them to succeed in this to be honest. My score guesses for this match are 0-1 and 1-2. Because I expect a really close match. But maybe I will be wrong about it and Dortmund will crush them too. Because this happened many times before.

Leicester have just got ahead by 1-0 in their Brentford match. They are already the favoured team for a win in this one but there is not a big difference between these teams too. They have similar statistics this season. But normally, Leicester are a much better team than them. And they can show this to us by defeating Brentford here. They really need to pull themselves together as quick as possible. Leicester are not a bad team actually but this season is just problematic for them.

Monaco got a huge victory for themselves today. They managed to destroy PSG by a result like 3-0 in their home match. Actually this was not a shocking incident to me. Because we all have seen the Nice - PSG match in the league too. Monaco did the same thing to PSG and obtained a comfortable victory. Something is really wrong about PSG these days. Maybe they are still in no trouble in the league as they are far ahead of every team in the standings now. And this was the reason they didn't play that good maybe. But they are still not that good that is the truth. Being eliminated by Real Madrid like that was the biggest sign for it.

I'm already seeing Liverpool, Manchester City and Bayern Munich as the obvious favourites for the semi finals. But I'm still indecisive about the Chelsea - Real Madrid matchup. As you can remember, Chelsea eliminated Real Madrid in the semi finals last season of the Champions League. And the same Chelsea are the last champion team in this tournament too. Real Madrid should get ready for a tough fight in this matchup. Chelsea are a team that play smart under Tuchel's management. They wouldn't forgive big mistakes again.

Arsenal player Saka scored a very important goal for his team today as it helped them defeat Aston Villa by 1-0 in an away match. But this score might be misleading because Arsenal really dominated this match. Aston Villa didn't have even many proper goal chances to fight back. Arsenal continue on their impressive performance in the Premier League. They are four points ahead of Manchester United now and maintaining their place at the fourth position too. Arsenal seem to be the most deserving team for this position for now.

I guess that the most surprising match of the day has been Greuther Furth - Freiburg so far. Freiburg were favoured to win this match absolutely. And they had a favorable winning odd like 1.70 as well. But here we are and they drew with their opponent by 0-0. Freiburg's points are three times Greuther Furth's currently. I really wonder how Freiburg couldn't win this easy match. And now, I've started waiting for the Bayern Munich - Union Berlin match. I don't expect any surprise this time and the home team should be winning this.